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Rush hour traffic is light through the I-71/471 interchange into downtown Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, as seen from the Mt. Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati about 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Traffic out of downtown was unusually light leaving the downtown area as many area workers have been instructed to work from home during the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak. Sam Greene/The Enquirer

Rush hour traffic is light through the I-71/471 interchange into downtown Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, as seen from the Mt. Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati about 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Traffic out of downtown was unusually light leaving the downtown area as many area workers have been instructed to work from home during the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak. Sam Greene/The Enquirer

Rush hour traffic is light through the I-71/471 interchange into downtown Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, as seen from the Mt. Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati about 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Traffic out of downtown was unusually light leaving the downtown area as many area workers have been instructed to work from home during the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak. Sam Greene/The Enquirer

Rush hour traffic is light through the I-71/471 interchange into downtown Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, as seen from the Mt. Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati about 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Traffic out of downtown was unusually light leaving the downtown area as many area workers have been instructed to work from home during the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak. Sam Greene/The Enquirer

Rush hour traffic is light through the I-71/471 interchange into downtown Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, as seen from the Mt. Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati about 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Traffic out of downtown was unusually light leaving the downtown area as many area workers have been instructed to work from home during the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak. Sam Greene/The Enquirer

Rush hour traffic is light through the I-71/471 interchange into downtown Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, as seen from the Mt. Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati about 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Traffic out of downtown was unusually light leaving the downtown area as many area workers have been instructed to work from home during the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak. Sam Greene/The Enquirer

Rush hour traffic is light through the I-71/471 interchange into downtown Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, as seen from the Mt. Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati about 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Traffic out of downtown was unusually light leaving the downtown area as many area workers have been instructed to work from home during the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak. Sam Greene/The Enquirer

Rush hour traffic is light through the I-71/471 interchange into downtown Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, as seen from the Mt. Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati about 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Traffic out of downtown was unusually light leaving the downtown area as many area workers have been instructed to work from home during the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak. Sam Greene/The Enquirer

Rush hour traffic is light through the I-71/471 interchange into downtown Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, as seen from the Mt. Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati about 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Traffic out of downtown was unusually light leaving the downtown area as many area workers have been instructed to work from home during the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak. Sam Greene/The Enquirer

The Daniel Beard Bridge over the Ohio River is photographed in the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 17, 2020. In normal times, this would have been rush hour traffic, but with the coronavirus outbreak, daily life has greatly slowed. Liz Dufour/The Enquirer

A map showing crashes that occurred in and around Hamilton County from March 23 to April 5 in 2020.(Photo: Provided/Ohio)

Crashes in 2020

A map showing crashes that occurred in and around Hamilton County from March 23 to April 5 in 2020.(Photo: Provided/Ohio Highway Patrol)

Comparing March 2019 to March 2020, there were 18% fewer fatal crashes and 42% fewer crashes that resulted in serious injuries, the highway patrol data shows.

While many businesses began asking workers to telecommute by the middle of March, Ohio's stay-at-home order was issued until March 23. Therefore, traffic patterns in the state were normal for at least a portion of March.

April is on track show an even more dramatic drop in crashes.

If trends from the first week of the month continue, April 2020 could see few as 3,200 crashes in Ohio. In April 2019, there were 21,567 crashes in the state. That would be an 85% decrease.